Effort moves ahead to raise $3 million for fallen officers memorial

December 31, 2007

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan's sluggish economy is making it hard to raise money for a state memorial for fallen law enforcement officers. But supporters plan to ratchet up their efforts to raise the $3 million needed for the project. They plan to hire a professional fundraiser. Kathy Cole, chairwoman of the commission spearheading the fund, tells the Lansing State Journal the search is on for big donors. She says the names of 538 officers will be on the monument. One of those names will be that of Cole's husband, Paul, who died in 1996 in a car crash while responding to a domestic violence call. He was an Ingham County sheriff's department sergeant. Cole says construction on the monument will start in 2009.